A Sale That Happens to be on Black Friday.

Let me be honest with you. I kinda hate the thought of having a Black Friday sale. It strikes me as a desperate attempt to be trendy and timely.

And as we all know, I am neither of those things.

But we were *already* planning on putting up our signed books for November. And since last month’s books sold out in about two hours, we were going to put up a new piece of Kingkiller jewelry we have from Badali, too. But we realized we might sell out of *those* pretty quickly too….

So we decided to launch a few other things we’ve been thinking about for months, because honestly, with all the donations coming in for this year’s Worldbuilders fundraiser, we need the shelf space.

And then we had so much momentum going, we decided to bundle a few things together at a discount, and put a few things on sale….

Subterranean Press sent us 10 copies of the just-released second Princess and Mr. Whiffle book. We’ve got five of the hardcover trades, and five of the special numbered editions. (There’s only 2000 of those total. And they include extras that aren’t in the trade version.)

Here’s the thing. We might sell out of this item. But if we do, you can just hop over and buy them from Badali directly. And, since the fundraiser starts on Monday, they’re having their annual drive which donates 10% of your order directly to Worldbuilders.

The coupon codes will be good from December 2nd through February 1st.

US Customers – WBLDUSA13

US customers get free USPS Priority Shipping and 10% of your order will be donated to Worldbuilders.

International Customers – WBLDINT13

International orders get $10.00 off shipping and 10% of your order will be donated to Worldbuilders.

Note: This code is good for anything in Badali’s entire store, not just mine, so as soon as Monday hits, you can do a bunch of holiday shopping, save money on shipping, and know that money is being kicked toward a good cause, too.

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So there you are. Mind you, those aren’t the only deals we have going. We have other things on sale or bundled into groups as a discount.

For example, we’re doing two calendars this year, and they’re already bundled together so that if you buy two or three, you’ll save a chunk of change.

“Occasionally I like to help out a new authors by spreading the word about their books. With that in mind, I’d like to offer up some signed books from a plucky up-and-comer called Neil Gaiman. I know you probably haven’t heard of him before. But personally? I think this kid is going places.”

Newcomer? Gaiman? Author of Sandman/DC Comics and
Author of Stardust? The Book behind the Movie with De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer?

Considering Gaiman was used as a base model for Ambrose in TNOTW cards, and that Mr. Rothfuss is a well accomplished author whom seems to know a lot of stars (based on the cards kickstarter) combined with his penchant for sarcasm and satire…

I just ordered my signed copy of The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Thing Beneath the Bed! I’ve been waiting a while to get my hands on one. Thanks for the great deals Pat! Of course I’ll be back to donate when Worldbuilders kicks in in earnest >^.^<

Pretty frustrating that I have to be signed up for Twitter or Facebook to get in on some of the Rothfuss deals. I hope you don’t offer anything over there that some of us who don’t use social media would covet. I tune in to your blog daily so I can get in on the cool stuff. I was able to get a limited edition copy of The Dark Of Deep Below but missed out on the limited edition of the first one even though I purchased day one…

If you are really that worried about it you should definitely join social media on some front.
I haven’t seen any offers that weren’t offered on the blog as well though, popular items always go fast out of the Tinker’s Pack in my experience.

Back a couple years ago, the store used to be just my stuff, some t-shirts, a couple posters, some signed books. The addition of a new items was a big deal, mostly because it didn’t happen very often.

But these days, the store is one of the main ways that Worldbuilders makes money. And we sell a lot more in there than just my stuff. If Worldbuilders is going to continue to grow, the Tinker’s packs has to grow too.

Rest assured, when I do a cool new thing from my books, I’ll be posting up about it here on my blog.

And when we do a big event like this in the store, I’m going to mention it too. Today, I launched this blog and let it sit for hours before mentioning it on facebook.

But there might be occasional additions, small sales, or promotions that happen in the store that I don’t mention here. If I posted about everything, my blog would be more than half store news. Not only would that bore a lot of people, but it would feel whorish to me.

You can always peek over at the *recently added* section of the Tinker’s Packs if you like. And Worldbuilders will be maintaining more of it’s own blog in the future too. On the newly designed website.

Believe me, the last thing I want to do is encourage people to join social media.

Responses like this are why your blog has the most civil comments section of anyplace I’ve ever seen on the internet. Even on your facebook threads which would create screeching masses of the worse humanity has to offer on any other page, is met with respectful discourse. Because you don’t just ask for respect, you demonstrate what it should look like.
Anyway, thanks for that.

Just made my first ever Tinker’s Packs purchases. Got christmas/yule presents for myself and (more importantly) my husband. If anyone deserves a set of talent pipes, he does, and now he shall have them. And I shall have a super cool literary calendar, and we shall both have t-shirts! Life is good today!!!

I myself also made my first ever Tinker’s Packs purchase with both book bundles a and b. i work part time at a county library in California, it will be fun going thru these books keeping some and donating to the library, and of course supporting Worldbuilders. It isn’t much but I hope this helps.

Looking at what is sold out, or no longer available in the store, I wonder if Pat ever fears his own power. If he signs his name to anything that’s “limited edition,” it sells out quickly.

If he printed a cute picture of Oot on 500 napkins, hand-numbered them and signed them, they would be sell out at $10 / napkin in under a week. A 25 cent Bic pen, $50 in napkins creating $5000 of value out of thin air.